[Starhawk]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
Before the topic gets too far off track from the original thread, I was talking to a friend who works at Suncoast Motion Pictures where I get most of my dvds. He was telling me, first of all, that both Olmos and Katee Sachoff had never seen Battlestar Galactic before and were surprised at all of the vehemence that was being thrown their way. Once they saw some of the original BSG, they were disturbed by all of the differences. He informed me that if a new series were to develop, they would probably not be in it. Also, he doubts there will be a new series, due to the outrage that has come out over the new BSG and what happened to Farscape. And once he mentioned to me what Richard Hatch's storyline would have been like, I wish that would have been made instead. But apparently Glen Larson threw a monkey wrench into those plans, and then Universal stood up and claimed they owned the rights, but wasn't willing to pay the budget for the script. That's when Sci-Fi channel claimed they would make a mini-series instead.

No offense man but yeah right....I doubt anyone much less the actors were truely disturbed by the changes. So I think your friend is FOS. Especially because there have been numerious interveiws including at ScifiCon or whatever it's called where Almos and Sachoff both say they enjoyed their roles and would return so I think your friend was yanking your wank.

As to Sci-Fi making a full series I doubt they'd let what happened to farscape get in the way as most people really don't care about the old BSG now a days and those that are truely outraged really need to get a life. Personally the majority of people I've spoken to that have seen it loved it and really hope it comes out as a full fledged series so again I think you were getting taken for a ride.
Farscape was a disaster in that it was pulled too late, personally season five tanked and they really should have ended it back in season four and by time the realized it they were already SOL.
As far as Richard Hatch goes he was probobly gonna make a campy cheesy new series that was just like the old one where you couldn't really get attached to any of the characters because either they were goofballs that were supposedly hellraisers like Starbuck or they were little pretty boy perfect guys like Apollo.

The new Starbuck is a badass and a true hellraiser that you just love because she's got more chutspa then a lot of guys on the show.
The new Apollo and Adama are REAL people they have problems they have failings and they are easily liked because of this.

Sorry man but what you said is just not beleivable at all as the actors said to every interveiw that they enjoyed their role and would love to return and considering they were already paid and the miniseries already made they'd have no reason to lie about it. And Sci-Fi would not have put the time and great ammount of money that they did into making a Pilot episode with a bigass clifhanger when they had no intention of bringing it back especially because most of the old die hard BSG fans are just that....OLD they are looking for young people ages 16 to 25 and so would make a series targeted for them and being that most 16-25 year olds would consider BSG campy and lame they'd probobly greatly enjoy the new one and thus it would get HIGH Ratings from the youngons.
I mean even my SISTER liked it and really hopes they come out with a new series and she gagged every time she saw the original series.

[ December 12, 2003, 22:11: Message edited by: Starhawk ]